New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- "Be the change that you wish to see in the world"

Mahatma Gandhi

It's an established record that 2024 has been the warmest year and the first year that the average global temperature exceeded 1.5 degree Celsius above its pre-industrial level. On the backdrop of completion of 20 years from enforcing the Kyoto Protocol (adopted in 1997; effective in 2005) and 10 years from adopting the Paris Agreement (2015), the Conference of the Parties (30th session; COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be hosted and presided over by Brazil in November 2025. With climate change being identified as a "common concern for humankind", the United Nations created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climat...